Different markets. All the console makers other than Nintendo have done it for a time, but in the end the overall product does make a profit. The temporary losses are also not sheer loss leaders designed to put a competitor out of a market, but plays by everyone to amortize the equivalent tax writeoffs for the R & D earlier in the product cycle than they can if they just spread it out over a longer period. Bean shuffling by accountants more than anything else.
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Originally posted by Hiro
Different markets. All the console makers other than Nintendo have done it for a time, but in the end the overall product does make a profit. The temporary losses are also not sheer loss leaders designed to put a competitor out of a market, but plays by everyone to amortize the equivalent tax writeoffs for the R & D earlier in the product cycle than they can if they just spread it out over a longer period. Bean shuffling by accountants more than anything else.
So what's the difference to Intel then?